The Baby as Subject

Campbell Paul is a Consultant Infant and Child Psychiatrist at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. At the University he and colleagues established a Graduate Diploma and a Masters Course in Infant and Parent Mental Health. This course developed out of his longstanding experience in paediatric consultation liaison psychiatry and work in infant parent psychotherapy. He has a special interest in the understanding of the inner world of the baby, particularly as it informs therapeutic work with infants and their parents. With colleagues he has developed models of working in therapeutic groups with troubled parents and infants. He has been a consultant psychiatrist at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service has also been involved in the establishment of the Koori Kids Mental Health Network. He has worked with NT child mental health services in Central Australia. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and has been a participant in and organizer of a number of local and international conferences and activities in the field of infant mental health. Frances Thomson Salo trained with the British Society as a child and adult psychoanalyst, is a Training analyst and past President of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee of Women in Psychoanalysis, an editorial board member of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis', a consultant infant mental health clinician at the Royal Women's Hospital and child psychotherapist at the Royal Children's Hospital, an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, an Associate Professor on the faculty of the University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma for Infant and Parent Mental Health, and has published on child and infant-parent psychotherapy.

Introduction , What I am trying to do when I see an infant with his or her parents , Engaging with the baby as a person: early intervention with parents and infants , Interventions in Acute Health Settings , The sick baby in hospital , Perceptions of parents of tube fed babies: a preliminary analysis , Contingent singing as a therapeutic intervention for the hospitalised full-term neonate , Two children in acute wards , Working in twilight: infant mental health interventions with babies who may die , Infants dependent on technology at home: enabling the staff , Interventions in Crying, Feeding, and Settling Difficulties , Reflux and irritability , Ooey gooey group: a behavioural interactive group for parents and young children with feeding problems , In the nurse’s consulting room , Infant–Parent Therapy , Talking with infants , When twins present: creating space to be seen , Play dough, pooh, and general practice: communications of a two-year-old child , Tom’s perfect world , Babies in groups: the creative roles of the babies, the mothers, and the therapists , Interventions with Infants with Problems of Relating , Infant–parent psychotherapy in a community paediatric setting , The gift of connection: intervention with a two-year-old boy , Attachment to one, two, or to group: an infant mental health intervention with an Indian family in transition , Feeding, the self, and working through the infant’s pathological defences: the seriousness of playfulness , Interventions with Infants Exposed to Family Violence , Infancy and domestic violence: an annotation , Working with a sick baby born of a rape , Sara: psychotherapy with a mother–infant dyad with a background of violence , Reference Papers , Some principles of infant–parent psychotherapy , The infant who looks but does not see , Epilogue: The spare room: a father confronts his fatherhood